337. Ballad on the Rising of the Vendée.
—Who is the author of a modern ballad on the Rising of the Vendée, of which the last lines are—
"We crush'd, like ripen grapes, Montreuil, we tore down old Vetier—
We charged them with our naked breasts, and took them with a cheer—
We'll hunt the robbers through the land, from Seine to sparkling Rhone.
Now 'Here's a health to all we love: our King shall have his own!'"
D. B. J.
338. Stanza on Spenser's "Shepherd's Calender."
—In some of the early quarto editions of Spenser, in the "Shepherd's Calender," June, there is a stanza which in almost all the subsequent folio editions is omitted. I shall be much obliged for any information as to when and why it was left out; in the copies in which it appears it is the twelfth stanza, and is as follows:—
"Now dead he is, and lieth wrapt in led,